Airline maintains discipline by reallocating existing capacity to new routes
Oct. 20, 2009 (PR Newswire) --
ATLANTA, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) today announced a series of schedule enhancements to strengthen its international network for summer 2010. The changes - which will expand service for customers in 17 cities - leverage Delta's industry-leading joint venture with Air France-KLM, growing alliance relationship with Alaska Air Group and increased fleet flexibility gained from its merger with Northwest.
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"No other airline has the alliance partners, fleet flexibility or network breadth to consistently deliver new routes for customers while at the same time being responsible in managing capacity in the face of a global economic recession," said Glen Hauenstein, Delta's executive vice president - Network Planning and Revenue Management. "As America's flag carrier to the world, Delta's 2010 schedule will bring new nonstop service to dozens of communities around the globe, thanks to the strength of our worldwide alliances."
Delta's 2010 changes are part of the first fully consolidated schedule published following Delta's merger with Northwest, allowing the airline to reallocate existing capacity to new routes. Delta also will maintain many of the international route reductions it announced in June in response to decreased global demand.
Delta's new and expanded nonstop routes for summer 2010 will be focused in three regions: Trans-Pacific, trans-Atlantic and Africa.
Region Route Effective* Aircraft Frequency
------ ----- --------- -------- ---------
Trans- Seattle to Beijing, June 4, 2010 Boeing 767-300 Five times
Pacific China weekly
Seattle to Osaka, June 7, 2010 Boeing 767-300 Daily
Japan
Detroit to Hong June 2, 2010 Boeing 777-200 Five times
Kong weekly
Detroit to June 1, 2010 Boeing 777-200 Five times
Seoul-Incheon weekly
Detroit to June 1, 2010 Boeing 777-200 Expanded
Shanghai, China from five
to seven
times
weekly
Tokyo-Narita to June 1, 2010 Boeing 747-400 Upgraded
New York-JFK from
daily
Boeing
777-200
to
747-400
aircraft
Tokyo-Narita to Los June 1, 2010 Airbus A330-200 Expanded
Angeles /Boeing from
777-200 seven to
11 weekly
flights
Trans-
Atlantic New York-JFK to May 27, 2010 Boeing 757-200 Daily
Copenhagen,
Denmark
New York-JFK to May 27, 2010 Boeing 757-200 Daily
Stockholm, Sweden
New York-JFK to June 3, 2010 Boeing 747-400 Upgraded
Tel Aviv, Israel from
daily
Boeing
767-300
to
747-400
aircraft
Seattle to June 1, 2010 Airbus A330-300 Expanded
Amsterdam /Boeing from
767-300 seven to
10
weekly
flights
Africa Atlanta to Accra, June 1, 2010 Boeing 767-300 Three times
Ghana** weekly
New York-JFK to June 1, 2010 Boeing 767-300 Three times
Abuja, Nigeria** weekly
*Effective dates denote first U.S. departures
**Subject to foreign government approval
Trans-Pacific
By June 2010, Delta will add new nonstop routes from its primary U.S.-to-Asia gateways in Detroit and Seattle and realign flights at its Tokyo-Narita hub to better match capacity to demand.
From Detroit, Delta will introduce new nonstop service to Seoul-Incheon and Hong Kong and expand service between Detroit and Shanghai. Delta has continued to position Detroit as a major gateway to Asia thanks to its strategic geographic position for millions of customers who travel between the U.S. East Coast and Asia. Detroit offers customers 477 peak-day departures to more than 130 nonstop destinations.
At Seattle, Delta's Asian expansion is powered by its partnership with Alaska Air Group. New nonstop flights from Seattle to Beijing and Osaka will be timed for convenient connections with Delta and Alaska's 267 combined daily departures to 64 destinations from Seattle/Tacoma, and will complement Delta's existing daily service to Tokyo-Narita. Delta and Alaska offer customers reciprocal codeshare, lounge and frequent flyer benefits to make it easier to connect between the airlines' domestic and international networks at Seattle.
